Name: Indonesia, Vol. 9
Brand: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
SKU: 422265
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Indonesia, Vol. 9

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Album: Indonesia, Vol. 9
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Dhikiro
2)	Zoka
3)	Teo Ne Wea-Dioe - (Mixed Chorus mix)
4)	Gogo Rego - (Mixed Chorus mix)
5)	Teke Song: Ana Geo
6)	Teke Song: Kela - (Mixed Chorus mix)
7)	Teke Song: Pata - (Mixed Chorus mix)
8)	Goegoe - (Mixed Chorus mix)
9)	Mbata Song: Ndore
10)	Wera Sarajawa

Album: Indonesia, Vol. 9
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Dhikiro
2)	Zoka
3)	Teo Ne Wea-Dioe - (Mixed Chorus mix)
4)	Gogo Rego - (Mixed Chorus mix)
5)	Teke Song: Ana Geo
6)	Teke Song: Kela - (Mixed Chorus mix)
7)	Teke Song: Pata - (Mixed Chorus mix)
8)	Goegoe - (Mixed Chorus mix)
9)	Mbata Song: Ndore
10)	Wera Sarajawa

Performer Notes

Full titie: Music Of Indonesia 9: Vocal Music From Central And West Flores.
Recorded in Flores from 1993 to 1994.
Recording information: Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur (1993/1994).
The ninth of twenty volumes in the Smithsonian Folkways series dedicated to the music of Indonesia is virtually a sequel to volume eight; both deal with the unusual vocal traditions on the island of Flores, east of Bali. Associated with the funerals and agricultural festivities of the Ngada and the Manggarai, most of the music heard on Vol. 9 might strike some western listeners as uncommonly dissonant. This entire question is an outgrowth of conventional western preconceptions of melody and harmony. For a simple solution to this perceived problem, remember Ornette Coleman when he sat in with the Master Musicians of Jajouka, Morocco in January 1973. Surrounded by men blowing into the North African ghaita or double reed shawm, Coleman remembered saying to himself: "at last -- here there are no wrong notes." Faced with more than an hour of rarely heard Indonesian choral music, listeners are advised to surrender Ornette Coleman-style to an entirely non-western world of sound. And be grateful that Philip Yampolsky spent about ten years recording, researching, and documenting this music, preserving it for all to experience at will. ~ arwulf arwulf